To e-mail or not to e-mail

I had the chance to meet Luis Suarez on the IBM innovation event ‘Shape your future’. Luis is a social software evangelist, helping people use other tools than only email to communicate and collaborate.

Yes, this story :

If we only have a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail.

I started using this hammer in my presentations several years ago, convincing people to move from email to shared document systems. Now it is still relevant, helping people to adopt social software tools : wiki’s, communication forums, blogs, RSS, …